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Ohappyday
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Measure for average monthly total. AVERAGEX not quite right for this scenario

Hi.  I would like to build a measure that provides the average monthly total of volunteers, so I don't have to provide a huge total i.  SUMX provides the total (see visualization), while AVERAGE X returns the monthly average per provider

For example, if November is picked in the slicer, Volunteers active (duplicated by month) returns 359 (69+129+60+101), but AVERAGEX returns 89.75 (359/4 because there are four providers).     I've tried countrows and spent a good deal of time trying various different approaches, unsuccessfully.  Thank you for any help you can provide.

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Here are the measures I'm currently using:

Volunteer hours received by consumers =
SUMX(
FILTER('Assessment Questions',
[Question]= "# of volunteer hours received by consumers for reporting month not reported by another agency"), [Response])

 

All Provider Expenses =
SUMX('Invoice Expense',
'Invoice Expense'[Invoice Amount])

 

 

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Ohappyday
Frequent Visitor

Hi Alexis.  Is there anything you can suggest?  Thisis one of what shoulb become about 15 such dashboards (for different programs)  and I would really appreciate understanding how to create this measure.  

Ohappyday
Frequent Visitor

Hi Alexis.  Thank you for your help!  I am learning DAX and may not be implementing your suggestion correctly.  I tried creating a new measure using the code below but received this error:  The syntax for 'RETURN' is incorrect.

 

VAR _MonthlyHours_ =
    SUMMARIZE ( 'Calendar', 'Calendar'[Month], "@TotalHours", [Volunteer hours received by consumers] )
RETURN
    AVERAGEX ( _MonthlyHours_, [@TotalHours] )
 
I tried creating a new table with the same code and received the same error.

Do you have any further suggestions?

That's not an error I'd expect with that code. Can you share a screenshot of your Power BI Desktop so I can check to see if you've missed something like naming the measure? (I didn't provide a name, so you'll definitely get some sort of error if you paste my code block in without adding one.)

This is my date calendar.  I wasn't sure if I should use Month or Year Month in the groupBy_columnName parameter.

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Hi.  Yes, there is so much about DAX that I don't know, I probably have made an obvious error, or more than one.  Is this what you are looking for?

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AlexisOlson
Super User
Super User

The key is to aggregate at the level of granularity you need before you take an average.

 

Try writing your logic along these lines:

VAR _MonthlyHours_ =
    SUMMARIZE ( Dates, Dates[Month], "@TotalHours", [Volunteeer hours] )
RETURN
    AVERAGEX ( _MonthlyHours_, [@TotalHours] )

 

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